mercy | antidote recovery support

antidote recovery support

arkansas

MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY through INFORMED SUPPORT

mercy's goals:

mercy's mental health goals:

problem: lack of mental health care

solution: creation of care through an understanding of individual and broader local needs, education, communication, safety, connection with community, and evaluation of existing resources.

ARS mission: advance mental health care on an individual and systemic level.

ARS vision: foster a profound understanding of recovery from an individual perspective. develop a gold standard, self sustaining system of mental health care.

ARS current priorities: diversion program and mobile crisis response in washington and benton cos, treatment facilities in NWA, therapist health resource.

today's goals: discuss collaborative opportunities w in our networks/innovative approaches to using available resources to speed understanding and implementation of solutions to mental health care.

DIVERSION PROGRAM

care not conviction

MOBILE CRISIS RESPONSE UNITS

crisis intake

TREATMENT FACILITIES

AR lacks level 1 and 2 mental/behavioral health treatment facilities.

MEDIA

media around mental health is growing. this exposure increases willlingness to enter mental health care and reduces stigma,

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NWA mental health care initiatives

real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

-RBG